Lewis Garners a McKnight Award
The McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience has selected Assistant Professor Laura Lewis (BME) as one of seven neuroscientists to receive the 2021 McKnight Scholar Award. The McKnight awards are granted to young scientists who are in the early stages of establishing their own independent laboratories and research careers and who have demonstrated a commitment to […]
AHA Moment: Lejeune Awarded Funding for Heart Cell Data Work
By Patrick L. Kennedy With a promising technology aimed at combating heart disease, Assistant Professor Emma Lejeune (ME) has earned the American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award. Lejeune’s software and computational methods have the potential to empower future researchers to develop medicine and artificial tissue that will cure cases of cardiac disease—the leading cause […]
Three ENG Faculty Promoted
Three College of Engineering faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure “Each year, these promotions and awards of tenure mark an especially proud moment for the BU community, as we’ve had the pleasure of watching these talented colleagues develop from promising junior faculty into teachers and scholars of national impact […]
The Sensor You Swallow
By Patrick L. Kennedy Thanks to the work of Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil (ECE) and her colleagues at MIT, Crohn’s and other bowel disease sufferers might someday skip the arduous annual endoscopy and instead swallow a pill-sized device that would literally shed light on what’s going on inside the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. MIT researchers previously […]
Laura Lewis Named a Pew Scholar
Continuing a streak of honors for her ground-breaking research into the complex neural circuits that govern sleep, Assistant Professor Laura Lewis (BME) has been selected one of 22 early-career researchers to join the Pew Scholars Program.
Tinker Contest Tackles COVID Pet Peeves
By Patrick L. Kennedy Are you six feet away from that person? For much of the pandemic, that question was more than academic, but few of us can tell without a tape measure. One ENG student created a kind of laser pointer that answers that question, and it took top honors in the spring 2021 […]
Start-Up Stars
Two ENG alumni are on Forbes’ list of top young entrepreneurs By Patrick L. Kennedy If you’re a frequent flyer, you’ve been there. At the airport, eyes on the big board, monitoring your flight status. Delayed. Delayed. And then: Cancelled. Saniya Shah (’16) has certainly been there, and she’s hit upon a solution. Shah is […]
Gerry Fine to Retire
Professor of the Practice Gerald J. Fine (ME, MSE) has announced that he will retire at the end of this year. Fine is the director of the Engineering Product Innovation Center (EPIC) and the head of Innovate@BU, a cross-disciplinary incubator for students’ cutting-edge ideas. Read the full story at BU Today.
College Launches Machine Learning Concentration
By Patrick L. Kennedy Not long ago, speech processing software was pretty much limited to a phone robot asking a caller to speak the number “1,” says Professor and ECE Department Chair W. Clem Karl. “Now we routinely ask Alexa questions or tell Google Maps where we want to go just by speaking.” That’s the […]
“Global Threats Need You”
2021 Class of Societal Engineers Celebrated By Michael Seele and Patrick L. Kennedy With a call to continue their dedication to being Societal Engineers after earning their degrees, the College of Engineering’s Class of 2021 celebrated its graduation with virtual Commencement Exercises last weekend. Ceremonies for bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral graduates were held on May […]